New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America
The film opens with a superb Yiddish vaudeville number performed by the widely mourned Bruce Adler
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How Yiddish and Savta Sarah shaped my Jewish journey
Sarah taught me how Yiddish articulated resilience through cynicism, poking fun at everything in life from the tragic to the banal
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Yiddish street signs: Commemoration or marginalization?
A “memory landscape” in Berlin’s former Yiddish-speaking neighborhood revives the dream of Yiddish as an official minority language of Germany
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How young people once used Yiddish personal ads to find a partner
One ad was from a foreman's assistant, who hoped to open his own factory with the help of his future bride’s dowry
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Recalling Millie Baran, whose mark on the Yiddish world lives on
Once a beloved "camp mother" at a socialist summer camp, she was invited onto "The View" to describe her Holocaust experiences.
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How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
Vladka Meed’s memoir ‘On Both Sides of the Wall’ challenges the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
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VIDEO: A song about a Jewish girl, Khaye, who died in Treblinka
Binem Heller wrote the poem about his sister who, before the war, would watch over him and his brothers while their mother worked
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How a group of retirees uses the Forverts podcast to learn Yiddish
For each text, the author designs activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.
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Forverts podcast: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The 1911 tragedy reminds us what could happen when immigrant workers' lives are put in danger.
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How my first trip to Israel led to ‘The First Ever Yiddish Show in Egypt’
A fear of flying and an anti-Zionist upbringing kept singer Riki Rose grounded
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Yiddish non-profit brings together literature, listening parties and language circles in London
‘Jargon’ founders sought a Jewish space that focuses on diaspora and counter-cultural Jewish characters
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